Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 42/2021: Growth

Hidden Microbes Residing in Showerheads
Distinct microbe communities found in fixtures connected to different water sources

Late-Stage C–H Deuteration of Arenes
Palladium-catalyzed, nondirected isotopic labeling

Chemists4Future
Chemists for Future aims to anchor sustainability in the study of chemistry

Clariant and Linde's Catalyst and Technology for Sustainable Ethylene Production
They says it reduces CO₂ emissions by up to 100 % compared to conventional ethane steam cracking

How Was Ribose Selected as the Sugar in RNA?
Metal-doped clays could have served as a "stationary phase" to separate ribose from other sugars

Sustainable Depolymerizable Plastics
Overcoming the low driving force in forming depolymerizable polymers through monomer isomerization

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
The prize was awarded to Benjamin List (Germany) and David MacMillan (USA) for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

Triphosphatetrahedrane Synthesized
Tetrahedral compound with three phosphorus atoms and one C–H unit

Conversion of Captured CO2 to Methane
Making methane via an integrated capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) approach